Swiss height data & publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• Koepke, N., Floris, J., Pfister, C., Rühli, F. J., & Staub, K. (2018). Ladies First: female and male adult height in Switzerland, 1770-1930 Economics and Human Biology, 29, 76–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2018.02.002
• Myburgh, J., Staub, K., Rühli, F. J., Smith, J. R., & Steyn, M. (2017). Secular trends in stature of late 20 th century white South Africans and two European populations HOMO Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 68, 433–439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchb.2017.10.001
• Panczak, R., Moser, A., Held, L., Jones, P. A., Rühli, F. J., & Staub, K. (2017). A tall order: small area mapping and modelling of adult height among Swiss male conscripts Economics and Human Biology, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2017.01.005
• Lehmann, A., Floris, J., Woitek, U., Rühli, F. J., & Staub, K. (2017). Temporal trends, regional variation and socio-economic differences in height, BMI and body proportions among German conscripts, 1956-2010 Public Health Nutrition, 20, 391–403. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980016002408
• Rohrmann, S., Haile, S. R., Staub, K., Bopp, M., & Fäh, D. (2017). Body height and mortality - mortality follow-up of four Swiss surveys Preventive Medicine, 101, 67–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.05.023
• Staub, K., Bender, N., Floris, J., Pfister, C., & Rühli, F. J. (2016). From undernutrition to overnutrition: the evolution of overweight and obesity among young men in Switzerland since the 19th century Obesity Facts, 9, 259–272. https://doi.org/10.1159/000446966
• Bentham, J., Rühli, F. J., Staub, K., Faeh, D., Gutzwiller, F., Ezzati, M., & NCD-RisC Group. (2016). A century of trends in adult human height ELife, 5, e13410. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13410
• Habicht, M. E., Henneberg, M., Öhrström, L. M., Staub, K., & Rühli, F. J. (2015). Body height of mummified pharaohs supports historical suggestions of sibling marriages American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 157, 519–525. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22728
• Staub, K., Floris, J., Woitek, U., & Rühli, F. (2014). From left-skewness to symmetry: how body-height distribution among Swiss conscripts has changed shape since the late 19th century Annals of Human Biology, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.3109/03014460.2014.942366
• Hermanussen, M., Alt, C., Staub, K., Assmann, C., & Groth, D. (2014). The impact of physical connectedness on body height in Swiss conscripts Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 71, 313–327. https://doi.org/10.1127/0003-5548/2014/0466
• Staub, K., & Rühli, F. J. (2013). From growth in height to growth in breadth: The changing body shape of Swiss conscripts since the late 19th century and possible endocrine explanations General and Comparative Endocrinology, 188, 9–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.03.028
• Staub, K., Woitek, U., Pfister, C., & Rühli, F. J. (2012). Überblick über zehn Jahre historisch-anthropometrische Forschung in der Schweiz: Säkularer Trend, soziale und regionale Unterschiede in der mittleren Körperhöhe und -form seit Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts Bulletin der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, 18, 37–50.
• Schoch, T., Staub, K., & Pfister, C. (2012). Social inequality and the biological standard of living: An anthropometric analysis of Swiss conscription data, 1875-1950 Economics and Human Biology, 10, 154–173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2011.05.001
• Staub, K., Rühli, F. J., Bogin, B., Woitek, U., & Pfister, C. (2011). Edouard Mallet’s early and almost forgotten study of the average height of Genevan conscripts in 1835. Economics and Human Biology, 9, 438–442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2011.03.001
• Staub, K. (2011). Grösser – und dicker. Körperhöhe und Body Mass Index im Kanton Bern seit dem 19. Jahrhundert Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, 73, 3–39. http://www.bezg.ch/html/bezg-online/
• Staub, K., Rühli, F. J., Woitek, U., & Pfister, C. (2011). The average height of 18- and 19-year-old conscripts (N=458,322) in Switzerland from 1992 to 2009, and the secular height trend since 1878 Swiss Medical Weekly, 141, w13238. https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2011.13238